Legislative Speech

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel focuses on legislative speech in parliamentary democracies. The papers in this panel utilize novel methodological approaches to identify how exogenous shocks change issue priorities during legislative debates; analyze whether interest group activities affect the content of parliamentary questions; estimate the ideology of MPs using floor speeches; and quantify the levels of negativity in speeches delivered by ministers and MPs and how these change with electoral rule changes.

Sub Unit

• Division 22: Legislative Studies

Individual Presentations

• Electoral Reform and the Rise of Parliament as a Contentious Arena - Kuniaki Nemoto, Musashi University

• The Effect of Interest Group Strategies on Parliamentarians’ Behaviour - Oliver Huwyler

• Floor Speeches and Ideological Position: Estimating Ideology of Representatives - Benjamin Guinaudeau

Chair

• Eduardo Aleman University of Houston

Discussants

• Sebastian Vallejo Vera Tecnologico de Monterrey

• Jonathan B. Slapin University of Zürich